• zephorah@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Have you ever been on a jury? In my experience it’s 2-4 strong personalities and a bunch of people confused by lawyer speak (because two confident authority figures are telling them to believe e two different things and they can’t reconcile the contradiction) and people who just want to go home and thus go along with the strong personalities.

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      15 hours ago

      … Right, so therefore

      1 juror alone can hang the jury, but they’d have to convince all the other jurors to actually render a verdict of not guilty to avoid a mistrial

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      19 hours ago

      Isn’t it always said that jurys are made up of people not smart enough to get out of jury duty.

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        6 hours ago

        Some jobs give you your work day wage for jury duty as a benefit. Why not go? Get paid by work to take a break from work and watch live court drama.

        There’s value in knowing how it works.

        If your job doesn’t pay you, the $15/day, or whatever ridiculous amount, won’t pay your bills so yes, get out of it.